Morning Minutes: Nov. 5

Monday

Nov 5, 2012 at 8:00 AM

Word of the Day

Ostracize AHS-truh-syze (verb) To exclude from a group by common consent -- www.merriam-webster.com

Web Site of the Day

Jinniwww.jinni.com

This site offers movie recommendations using the Movie Genome Project, which takes a more widespread and complex method of cataloging film and TV. Take a quiz to discover your movie personality, and discover films you normally might overlook.

Number to Know

9.2 million: The number of veterans 65 and older in 2008, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

This Day in History

Nov. 5, 2006: Saddam Hussein and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi’as in 1982.